longest shots(pics added)

[fishfinder401]

hope it works

[Marc St Louis]

About 325 yards with a 50# bow and a 300 grain arrow and about 230 yards with 55# bow and a hunting weight arrow of about 520 grains, these were measured distances

[fishfinder401]

this is at full draw
gstoneberg this is the bottom part of the borereless stave, as you can see, its working out great
thanks
noel

[fishfinder401]

About 325 yards with a 50# bow and a 300 grain arrow and about 230 yards with 55# bow and a hunting weight arrow of about 520 grains, these were measured distances

how did you do that

[ken75]

Marc if that was a selfbow in the broadhead class thats a new world record

[Elktracker]

Fish not bad thats 150lb at 27" wow you got any other specs on it length width limb thickness ect? What kind of wood is that? Are you at full draw 27" there in the picture? looks pretty heavy

[young indian12]

fishfinder, I'm with you, I love to go out to an open field and just send the arrows flying!

Unfortunately, I neither have a very accurate method of measuring, but probably about 250 yards with a #50 rockelm long bow.

[Marc St Louis]

Noel. I've had several bows that have shot that far over the years

Ken. It was a selfbow but with a target arrow.  A broadhead arrow would not go as far.

[crooketarrow]

   Back in 79 I shot a 8 point 56 yards in the white spot. Put my 40 yard pin top of his head. This was when I younger and into  head counts. My longest recuve was also and 8 point 25 yards on a dryed up rim of a pond standing on his hind feet makeing a scrape. Longest long bow shot was 18 yards 6 point troting. And longest selfbow out of 36 bucks longest was 15 closest was 3. I  use to cast my selfbows, 150 to 200 yards with hunting arrows with broad heads. Once saw a guy shoot 854 yards with a 93 pound high country. Don't remember the arrow grain.
   Had many hunting rifles and built 6 bench rest rifles regurely shot 200 to 1000 yards.

[fishfinder401]

Fish not bad thats 150lb at 27" wow you got any other specs on it length width limb thickness ect? What kind of wood is that? Are you at full draw 27" there in the picture? looks pretty heavy

that is around full draw, i didnt want to push ot while inside, its made of osage, ill measure the dimensions when i get home, it may be under 150 a little i havnt been able to measure it yet, but from the feel of it, its somewhere in that neighborhood. if it was longer, i would pull it to my full 32, but the bow is too short and i just pull what feel scomfortable with it.
noel

[Kviljo]

370 meters with a ~80# @ ~25" Boo/ipe Möllegabet, and a spruce arrow.

[JackCrafty]

Popped a few rounds down range at about 1000 meters with this sucker (see below).  With a bow?  Not so much.   

[fishfinder401]

370 meters with a ~80# @ ~25" Boo/ipe Möllegabet, and a spruce arrow.

wow, nice shot and bow, never thought of an ipe mollegabet
ill have to try that sometime
and jackcrafty, what i would do is make that thing into a giant cross bow
noel

[gstoneberg]

this is at full draw
gstoneberg this is the bottom part of the borereless stave, as you can see, its working out great
thanks
noel

Sorry Noel, somehow I missed this thread.  I'm glad to see the wood worked out. 

George

[smoke]

I try to flight test my selfbows as a cheap and fun way to measure performance against my old 65# Bear Kokiak recurve.  I was confident hunting anything with the Bear bow so it seemed like a good measuring stick.  With my 500 - 530 grain arrows I was able to shoot the Bear 215 paces (my paces are very close to yards).  With my favorite osage flatbow - 65 inches tip to tip, 63# at 27, I shoot consistently in the 210 range.  With a 71 inch hickory longbow (58#) I have shot 190 . . . but I think that was a bit wind aided.